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Families

Cost of living and house prices see birthrate plummet 

Sydney is leading the nation’s baby drought as cost-of-living pressure and out-of-reach house prices dampen the desire of young couples to start or expand their families. Source: The Australian.

Education Western Australia

Political parties urged  to commit to capital funding for Catholic schools 

Catholic Education Western Australia is calling on the state’s political parties to commit to providing state capital funding for Catholic schools.

Aged Care

Catholic aged care residents visit doctor without leaving home

VMCH (Villa Maria Catholic Homes) has secured $192,000 worth of grants to introduce telehealth services to residents at eight of its aged care homes in Victoria.

Disability In The Dioceses

Ministry of evangelisation spreads the word – slowly

SPRED – SPecial REligious Development – is a ministry of evangelisation and belonging that has fostered the spiritual life of people living with intellectual disabilities in the Toowoomba Diocese for nearly 40 years.

Cyber safety

‘Wilful blindness’: Big fines for tech giants that ignore abuse material

Tech giants such as Apple, Microsoft, Google and Meta face fines of almost $800,000 a day if they don’t come clean on their progress in combating child exploitation and abuse material on their platforms. Source: Sydney Morning Herald.

HIgher Education

ACU graduate to read ‘Great Books’ in US

One of the first graduates from Australian Catholic University’s Western Civilisation program has won a prestigious international scholarship to pursue her studies in the United States.

Art Vatican

Pietà to get high-tech protection for Jubilee year

The Vatican is installing a set of nine, bullet-proof and shatter-proof glass panels in front of one of its most famous works of art, Michelangelo’s marble Pietà sculpture in St Peter’s Basilica. Source: CNS

Middle East

Chaldean bishops call for two-state solution in Holy Land

Wrapping up their annual Synod in Baghdad, the Chaldean bishops of Iraq expressed their deep concern over the impact of the war in Gaza on the entire region, and reaffirmed a two-state solution as the only way for a lasting peace. Source: Vatican News.

United Nations Weapons

Vatican envoy to UN says nuclear weapons ‘an existential threat’

The Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva has addressed a UN committee on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Source: Vatican News.